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The Head and The Heart Announces North American Spring Tour

The Head and The Heart has announced a North American spring tour joined by special guest Margo Price, who has just released her excellent new single “Stone Me”. Hiss Golden Messenger will support the band on 3 shows in April. Presale and general on sale info below. Produced by Live Nation, the outing will kick off April 18th in Tilmon, TX and make stops in Toronto, Portland, New York and more, before wrapping July 19th.

Alongside the new tour dates, the band has released the official video for “Honeybee,” starring the band’s own Charity Rose Thielen, directed by Clare Gillen with creative direction from Charity and Gilly Studio. “Honeybee” has become a fan favorite and breakout track from the band’s fourth full-length album, Living Mirage, released to critical praise last year.

“Honeybee” follows on the heels of album track “Missed Connection” which secured the #1 position on the Alternative Chart and #1 at Mediabase and BDS alternative charts, already having achieved #1 on the AAA chart.

The Head and the Heart will perform “Honeybee” on The Late Late Show with James Corden on March 5th.

In addition to the tour, fans can also catch the band at Old Settler’s Music Festival, Something In The Water Festival, Hangout Music Festival, Green River Festival, Under The Big Sky Festival and Mountain Jam this spring – with more summer festival announcements coming soon. See below for a full rundown of dates.

TOUR DATES
04/18/2020 Tilmon, TX Old Settler’s Music Festival+
04/20/2020 Huntsville, AL Von Braun Center – Mars Music Hall*
04/22/2020 North Charleston, SC North Charleston Performing Arts Center*
04/23/2020 Wilmington, NC Greenfield Lake Amphitheatre*
04/25/2020 Virginia Beach, VA Something In The Water Festival
05/16/2020 Gulf Shores, AL Hangout Music Festival+
05/17/2020 Memphis, TN Orpheum Theatre^
05/18/2020 Louisville, KY Iroquois Amphitheater^
05/20/2020 Ann Arbor, MI Michigan Theater^
05/23/2020 Toronto, ON RBC Echo Beach^
05/24/2020 Shelburne, VT The Green at Shelburne Museum^+
05/26/2020 Portland, ME Thompson’s Point^+
05/27/2020 Lewiston, NY Artpark^
05/28/2020 Vienna, VA Wolf Trap^ (on sale 2/22)+
05/30/2020 Bethel, NY Mountain Jam Festival*^+ (on sale soon)
05/31/2020 LaFayette, NY Beak & Skiff Apple Orchards^+
06/02/2020 Philadelphia, PA The Met Philadelphia^
07/12/2020 Greenfield, MA Green River Festival+
07/18-19/2020 Whitefish, MT Under The Big Sky Festival+

*w/ Hiss Golden Messenger
^w/ Margo Price

Canadian Alt Pop/Rockers Century Surfers Release New Single, “Stars” Ahead of Forthcoming EP

Canadian alt. pop/rockers Century Surfers — aka The Howard Stern Show comedy contributor / 10-year multi-band scene staple Roddy Colmer and popular news anchor-turned-music man Jamie Gutfreund — have released their newest single and video, “Stars” — available now!

“The song started out like many of our songs do: a voice note of a guitar riff,” Colmer says of “Stars.”

“I had this dirty guitar riff kicking around for a while, but couldn’t seem to find where to go next, Gutfreund adds. “Then one day, I could hear the song mapping itself out in my head. I quickly grabbed the guitar and worked out the parts.

“This was one of those ‘it was written in 10 minutes’ moments, which rarely happens for me.”

“The riff for this was raw, yet funky, and I wanted the melody to float on the riff to smooth it out a bit,” Colmer continues. “The lyrics are meant to capture how we are all perfectly imperfect, and I think the music really lifts and supports the message on this.”

To that end, the track lands with lines like:

Angels full of scars, Darkness full of stars
This is who we are, It’s who we are

And —

I asked somebody once, ‘What does life really mean?’
They told me to ‘try to die with memories, not dreams…’

And serves as a stand-out sophomore stake in the ground following the pair’s debut, equally take-notice release, “The Storm.”

Take notice, people did.

With features on SiriusXM’s The Breakdown, AM 640, CIUT’s The Bill King Show, Ted Woloshyn’s Newstalk 1010, Toronto Mike, The Gate, Canadian Beats, Cashbox Canada, Tinnitist, and more, September 2019’s “The Storm” hit #41 on the iTunes Canada Alternative charts and hit airplay on Y108 Hamilton, 94.9 Oshawa, X92 Calgary, Rebel 101 Ottawa, Live 88.5 Ottawa.

“The Storm” and “Stars” lay foundation to Century Surfers’ forthcoming debut EP, set for release in Summer 2020.

Rory Block Announces Second Release of Her “Power Women of the Blues” Series with Prove It On Me, Coming March 27

Six-time Blues Music Award-winner (including the 2019 award for the “Acoustic Artist of The Year”) Rory Block announces the release of the second installment in her “Power Women of the Blues” album series with Prove It On Me, coming March 27 on Stony Plain Records. It follows the critically acclaimed 2018 release of her first CD in the series, a tribute to the legendary Bessie Smith titled A Woman’s Soul.

Rory was recently nominated for another Blues Music Award – “Traditional Female Blues Artist” (AKA – The Koko Taylor Award) – for the upcoming BMAs in Memphis in May. “I am incredibly honored to be nominated for ‘The Koko Taylor Award,’” she said upon hearing the news. “I met Koko in Germany years ago when I opened for her. We crossed paths again at various times on the road, where she began to introduce me as “Little Miss Dynamite.’ It means the world to me to be nominated in a category that honors her memory and her incomparable, historic legacy. I feel as if she is not gone but remains among us- supporting, encouraging, and cheering on the next generation of blues women.”

“Power Women of the Blues” is a project that had been simmering in her imagination for 54 years Rory told the media upon the Bessie Smith album’s release. “It has been my longstanding mission to identify, celebrate and honor the early founders—men and women—of the blues. This series is dedicated to the music of some of my all-time favorite iconic female blues artists, many of whom were shrouded in mystery during the sixties blues revival, while the recordings of others had simply disappeared.

“I also want to mention that the direction of my career essentially took on a new focus when I decided to begin the ‘lifetime retrospective’ projects, starting with ‘The Mentor Series’ (6 CDs specifically celebrating the rediscovered blues masters I met in person as a teenager). Now ‘Power Women of the Blues’ is the newest series of tributes dedicated to great founding women of the blues. The reason these tribute series are particularly relevant to Stony Plain records is because they have all of them on their label, and that’s a project exclusive to Stony Plain. I signed with them and started with the Son House tribute, and so on to the current series.”

Prove It On Me is an important step forward for Rory Block. On it she finds a new more mature voice uniquely her own while paying homage to some of the groundbreaking blues women of a bygone era.

“With this new recording I decided to celebrate some of the great female artists who were not as well-known as Bessie Smith (with the obvious exception of Ma Rainey and Memphis Minnie). Women of that era were certainly not given support to leave home, children and families to hop a freight train and go from bar to bar,” Rory explains. “Society really would have frowned utterly on that, and women knew it. They didn’t have permission to go out there as much as men did. Their recorded material might have been left in the back of an archive somewhere, and perhaps not widely promoted as a result. Some of their recordings probably got swept under some rug somewhere, and many great women artists essentially disappeared. Still other voices did make it through, people like Big Mama Thornton, Rosetta Tharpe, Sippie Wallace, and some of the women who sang jazz like Ella Fitzgerald, and also gospel, like Mahalia Jackson. Knowing the above, my goal with Prove It On Me was to bring to light some of these great talents who for whatever reason did not become as famous.”

On Prove It On Me she erases the decades, breathing fresh life into Ma Rainey’s version of the title cut and Memphis Minnie’s “In My Girlish Days” interjecting them with both a sass and sensibility in a clarion call torn from today’s headlines. Plus, she introduces us to some women who got lost in the rewriting of a musical history that figuratively buried some of the best female singers of the ’20s and ’30s with “He May Be Your Man” by Helen Humes, who replaced Billie Holiday in the Count Basie Orchestra in 1938; the attitude dripping “If You’re A Viper” originally released by a Chicago singer known as The Viper Girl Rosetta Howard; and “I Shall Wear A Crown” by blind gospel singer Arizona Dranes.

Prove It On Me also includes the original song, “Eagles,” that has a very special, personal meaning to Rory. “The words to ‘Eagles’ are directly from my life, with one single line for someone else as mentioned in the liner notes,” she confesses. “My book addresses my childhood- but even then I did not detail things in full and left many things unsaid. Just didn’t feel necessary or a good idea at that point.”
The Blues Foundation has said of Rory: “Today she is widely regarded as the top female interpreter and authority on traditional country blues worldwide.” And Rolling Stone magazine credited her with recording “some of the most singular and affecting Country Blues anyone, man or woman, black or white, old or young, has cut in recent years.”

In a career that has thus far produced 36 albums and numerous world tours, Rory Block’s fabled odyssey finds her at the absolute height of her talents, and at the top of the touring world as the premier voice of today’s acoustic blues guitar, renewing the promise of long forgotten blues women of the past and adding new energy that’s a piece of her heart. “My husband, Rob and I, we talk about it a lot,” she admits. “We jump into the car every day and listen to whatever we just recorded. That’s what gives us energy. That’s what gives us purpose. I think to myself if I’m ever not recording, there’s going to be some kind of dropout to my life. There’s going to be some kind of void. I always have to be surrounded with music to feel the energy I need to live. I mean, its energy, its spirituality. I live and breathe music.”

5SOS Announce No Shame 2020 Tour

5 Seconds of Summer (5SOS) are returning to the road this summer with the announcement of their No Shame 2020 Tour. The 2020 tour will see the band playing a number of venues across North America. With the success of their previous 5SOS3 and Meet You There tours and coming off the heels of their massive outing with The Chainsmokers, this will be a can’t miss event for fans of the high energy rock band.

Produced by Live Nation, the 21-city North American trek will kick off August 19th in Denver, CO and make stops in Toronto, Chicago, Atlanta, Nashville, and more, before wrapping September 26th in Concord, CA.

5SOS is the only band (not vocal group) in chart history to see its first three full-length studio albums enter the Billboard 200 at No. 1. Across their catalog, 5SOS has sold more than eight million equivalent album units and sold over two million concert tickets worldwide, while cumulative streams of their songs now surpass seven billion.

The band – comprising Luke Hemmings (vocals/guitar), Michael Clifford (vocals/guitar), Calum Hood (vocals/bass) and Ashton Irwin (vocals/drums) – has been recognized with an array of prestigious accolades including an American Music Award, a People’s Choice Award, two iHeartRadio Music Awards, eight MTV European Music Awards, five ARIA Awards, two APRA and two MTV Video Music Awards.

5SOS NO SHAME 2020 TOUR DATES:

DATE CITY VENUE
Wed Aug 19 Denver, CO Fillmore Auditorium
Fri Aug 21 Indianapolis, IN The Amphitheater at White River State Park
Sat Aug 22 Detroit, MI Michigan Lottery Amphitheatre at Freedom Hill
Sun Aug 23 Toronto, Canada Budweiser Stage
Tue Aug 25 Minneapolis, MN The Armory
Wed Aug 26 Chicago, IL Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island
Fri Aug 28 Washington DC The Anthem
Sat Aug 29 Uncasville, CT Mohegan Sun Arena
Wed Sep 02 Boston, MA Rockland Trust Bank Pavilion
Thu Sep 03 Gilford, NH Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion
Sat Sep 05 Holmdel, NJ PNC Bank Arts Center
Sun Sep 06 Allentown, PA Allentown Fair
Wed Sep 09 Atlanta, GA Coca-Cola Roxy
Thu Sep 10 Jacksonville, FL Daily’s Place
Sat Sep 12 Charlotte, NC Charlotte Metro Credit Union Amphitheatre
Sun Sep 13 Nashville, TN Ascend Amphitheater
Tue Sep 15 Irving, TX The Pavilion At Toyota Music Factory
Thu Sep 17 The Woodlands, TX Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
Mon Sep 21 Phoenix, AZ Arizona Federal Theatre (formerly Comerica Theatre)
Wed Sep 23 Irvine, CA FivePoint Amphitheatre
Sat Sep 26 Concord, CA Concord Pavilion

A new single from Ozzy Osbourne, a new Instagram feature, and 1 song that’s 62 minutes long. Warning: Includes my impression of Jason Momoa

My segment with Jeff McArthur on 640 Toronto is now online.

A new single from Ozzy Osbourne features a popular Game Of Thrones star as the Prince of Darkness.  Osbourne released a teaser clip for his new song Scary Little Green Men – starring Jason Momoa as the singer.

And…

Canada finally caught up to America with the newest Instagram feature. If you notice on your stories section, people now have the ability to add music to their videos without it being muted. Before the launch, if a story featured music, it would be muted for Canadian users. Facebook says that if the song has lyrics, then they will automatically pop up and can then be used as a reference point to select the section of song you’d like to include in your Story.

And…

Who needs an album when you can get the same amount of music in one song. Enter Arca, and artist-producer from Venezuela, just released a new song called “@@@@@.” that runs 62 minutes total.

Warning: This clip contains my impression of Jason Momoa.

That Time The Cramps Played The Napa State Mental Hospital In 1978

In June 1978, The Cramps gave a landmark free concert for patients at the California State Mental Hospital in Napa, recorded on a Sony Portapak video camera by the San Francisco collective Target Video and later released as Live at Napa State Mental Hospital.

This is genius marketing, right here.

Canadian Music Week Announces Erin Davis as Broadcast Industry Hall Fame Inductee

Canadian Music Week is pleased to announce legendary radio host, Erin Davis, as a 2020 inductee of the Canadian Music & Broadcast Industry Hall of Fame. Erin will be honoured for her achievements and longstanding career in the broadcast industry at the annual Canadian Music and Broadcast Industry Awards Gala at Bluma Appel Theatre in Toronto on Thursday, May 21, 2020.

Erin Davis called CHFI 981.FM in Toronto home for over 28 years, beginning in 1988, when she began doing news on the popular Daynard Drive-in. She soon became Don’s co-host and the show enjoyed enormous ratings right through his retirement in 1999. She then hosted with Bob Magee until June 2003, when the station decided to take the morning show in another direction.

Erin’s retirement from morning radio came approximately 18 months after their only child, beloved 24-year-old daughter Lauren, died in her sleep of unknown causes in May 2015. After being approached by HarperCollins to write a book telling of her experience with grief, Erin spent much of the next two years at her laptop.

Her memoir, Mourning Has Broken: Love, Loss & Reclaiming Joy, was released in February 2019 to critical acclaim and was listed in the Globe & Mail and Toronto Star Top Ten lists for 2019. The book will be released February 18, 2020 in soft cover.

In the summer of 2003, Erin saw a lifelong dream come true when the W Network called and offered her the opportunity to host her own TV show. W Live with Erin Davis, a daily live hour-long national talk show, which featured guests and viewers discussing women’s lifestyle, health and wellness issues, hit the air that fall and lasted one year.

In the fall of 2004, Erin had the opportunity to meet and work with Mike Cooper, one of Canada’s best-known radio personalities, while she was temporarily filling in on another Toronto radio station. Erin and Mike hit it off immediately and enjoyed great success together so, when CHFI asked Erin to come back in the fall of 2005, her new friend Mike was not far behind, and the two continued to make radio magic for more than a decade.

Prior to coming to CHFI in 1988, Erin co-hosted mornings on CKO Toronto, the flagship station of Canada’s all-news radio network. She had come from CKLW Windsor where she had been the first female co-host in the powerful Detroit market. Previously, she worked as a newscaster at CFRA Ottawa.

Erin was born in Edmonton, Alberta and was raised everywhere, including Ottawa, Trenton and England. She studied Radio Broadcasting at Loyalist College in Belleville. By her second year, a typical day for Erin included attending classes in the morning, hosting a radio show on CIGL-FM in the afternoon and playing piano at a local restaurant in the evening.

Erin continues to maintain a connection to her fans with her twice-weekly journal at erindavis.com.

Canadian Music Week will return to Toronto May 19 – 23, 2020.

Now in its 38th year, Canadian Music Week is Canada’s leading annual entertainment event dedicated to the expression and growth of the country’s music, media and entertainment industries. Combining multifaceted information-intensive conferences; a trade exposition; awards shows and the nation’s largest new music festival which spans five nights of performances, with hundreds of showcasing bands at more than 40 live music venues in downtown Toronto. All conference functions take place at the Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel, 123 Queen Street West in Toronto.

Multi-Award Winning Prolific Toronto-Based Songwriter & Hit Maker MARC JORDAN Nominated for 2020 JUNO Award for ‘Both Sides’

Multi-award winning prolific Canadian songwriter and master of his craft Marc Jordan has been nominated for a 2020 JUNO Award.

His collection of chilled-out, romantic contemporary jazz arrangements Both Sides (True North Records) is up for Adult Contemporary Album of the Year.

With numerous ASCAP, JUNO, SOCAN and Smooth Jazz nods to his credit, Jordan’s extensive body of work has appeared on more than 35 million+ CDs worldwide. With a personal discography of 16 releases, his songwriting CV cites credits for and with the likes of Diana Ross, Chicago, Kansas, Manhattan Transfer, Kenny Loggins, Amanda Marshall, Bette Midler, Natalie Cole, Roch Voisine, Canadian Tenors, Shawn Colvin, Olivia Newton-John, Joe Cocker, Bonnie Raitt, Josh Groban, Cher, Rod Stewart — including the #1 hit “Rhythm of My Heart” — and wife, Amy Sky.

Always a fan of mid-20th century material, Both Sides features new Jordan originals like “The Nearness of You” and “What Are You Doing The Rest of Your Life” sprinkled in with Joni Mitchell’s “Both Sides Now” and the Lou Reid masterpiece, “Walk on the Wild Side.”

Recorded with the Prague Symphony and released in Spring 2019, Both Sides proved a tour de force through the classic American songbook alongside previously unreleased originals.

2020 Grammy Award winner Randy Brecker enters stage left on trumpet, and the nine-track collection serves as both a cool and modern showcase of some of Jordan’s best vocal performances yet.

Both Sides is available now.

Climate Crisis and Catastrophic Capitalism Are Prime for Sonic Shakedown for Montreal’s Darkwave Pop Artist ELIZABETH LESLIE

Canadian indie darkwave dance-pop artist Elizabeth Leslie releases “To The Next” and Brave Animal, a searingly insightful EP calling attention to a world grappling with problems of man’s making.

“To The Next” is one of three bewitchingly packaged in Brave Animal. The release stands as Leslie’s (she/her) monument to the contemporary ennui of living through climate change and capitalism as a non-binary queer person in a vastly heteronormative society.

“I wrote this song a few days after returning from a month-long trip to Europe,” Leslie explains for “To The Next” and its origins. “I went to the UK, where my family is from, and Germany.

“I had always expected the trip to be as enchantingly foggy, rainy, and temperate as everyone always describes it, but it was spoiled by constant sun, above average (hot) temperatures, bleached yellow grass, and blatant tourism — everywhere. On returning, I realized what is truly at stake: not only is our ecosystem, precious wildlife, and ability to live as a race on this Earth being compromised, but so are our dreams. And dreams are what save us from intellectual death… Figuratively, they’re what keep us alive.

“We are destroying everything that is beautiful in humanity and nature. We are destroying our history, our present, and our future all for empty, capitalistic gains… The illusion of ‘having it all’ while destroying it all. We are a highly delusional, self-destructing, patriarchal society on the brink of collapse. Living in our current age is anxiety provoking and depressing, which is why so many of us are experiencing mental health crises. We know something is wrong.”

Scenery is something Leslie would know; originally from the picturesque province of Nova Scotia, Leslie then spent most of her 20s interwoven through the Montreal music scene, playing in various local indie bands. Her career start was marked by assisting Chromeo, followed by composing with French duo françoise on the synth-pop project, Jesus Poster.

“Brave Animal is a tiny snapshot of different stages of my life over the span of eight years,” she reflects on the EP as a whole. “I made the album mostly on a shoestring budget in my home studio with the help of Gregory Takacs, a film editor and composer I met while working at a visual effects studio in Toronto. Being constantly pushed beyond our limits, we both quit within a month of each other and quickly agreed we’d much rather be working on music.”

Produced by Matt DeMatteo (Esthero, Hawksley Workman), Brave Animal’s production as a whole captures Leslie’s deep contralto vocals standing solid on a vibrating foundation of dark electronic rhythms and industrial drum machines.

“Shortly after, I started working at a music retail store,” she continues on the album’s earliest aughts. “There, I met Greg Hounsell, the guitarist of Brutal Youth. He listened to a few of our demos and was our first fan. He ended up introducing me to legendary music producer, Matt DeMatteo, who I shared instant creative chemistry with. Every version of a song he sent us was fantastically orchestrated… He took the songs to a whole new level. We’re currently collaborating on new material.”

“To The Next” and Brave Animal are available now.

The Ultimate Wildebeest Migration Guide – When to Travel, Cost and Reviews

What Is The Great Wildebeest Migration?

There’s a big chance you have heard (if not seen) the Great Wildebeest Migration.

Also known as the Great Migration or the Wildebeest Migration, the Great Wildebeest Migration refers to the long and arduous journey where millions of wildebeest and other grazers move through the Serengeti and the Masai Mara ecosystems in pursuit of the rains. The Wildebeest Migration is arguably the greatest tourist highlight in East Africa.

Contrary to popular misconceptions out there, the migration doesn’t start and end in a few days. Instead, it’s a year-round cyclic journey that’s marked by perilous river crosses, high-speed big cat hunts, and lots of other exciting activities in between.

If you’re planning to share in the experiences of these herds as they journey through the expansive Mara – Serengeti ecosystem, you would need to work closely with professional local Kenya tour operators such as AJKenyasafaris.com and MasaiMarasafari.in.

Read on for more insights on what the migration is about, the special highlights within the journey, and the best time to visit Masai Mara and Serengeti national park for the annual wildebeest migration.

Which Animals Are Involved?

The Great Wildebeest Migration is so named due to the high number of wildebeest involved. But, the journey doesn’t exclusively involve wildebeest herds.

Various statistics estimate that there are at least 1.5 million wildebeest, 200,000 Burchell’s zebras, 350, 000 Thomson’s gazelles, as well as thousands of antelopes and other hoofed animals that take part in this migration. That doesn’t include many other animals, such as buffalos, that are usually coopted along the way.

Of course, it’s impossible to accurately determine the actual number of animals that move through the entire ecosystem in a single journey. That’s because a lot happens along the way. Hundreds of the herds are preyed on by river-dwelling Nile crocodiles and other predators, mostly the big cats. Many more animals perish by other means, such as drowning during the chaotic river crossings and getting trampled during stampede.

 

According to the rules of natural selection, only the strongest and most adaptable herds make it to the end of each journey, ensuring that future wildebeest generations comprise of only the most resilient animals.

But while many wildebeest perish in the course of the migration, many more are born during the calving season. Wildebeest are known to be very prolific, and at the peak calving season, up to 8,000 calves are born every day. As you shall find, the calving season mostly takes place on the Serengeti side and is the stillest phase of the migration.

The Migration in Months

January

The wildebeest herds are in the Serengeti National Park, specifically in Southern Serengeti regions around Lake Ndutu and the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. It is also the calving season in January, making it one of the best times to catch big cat hunts.

However, high-speed chases are rare. The many calves born provide an easy meal for lions, leopards, brown hyenas, and wild dogs that rule the Serengeti plains.

February

The grass is still lush in the Southern Serengeti, Ngorongoro, and Ndutu areas, so there isn’t much movement around this time.

The mating season commences, and the testosterone surges in the males see them frequently lock horns as they jostle for mating rights with receptive females.

March

Though the animals are still in the south, they have significantly reduced the grazing pasture.

The little grass remaining on the plains begins to wither, prompting the herds to gather as they prime themselves for the long journey north. This month also sees the last calves born.

April

The journey begins in earnest as the wildebeest herds head northward. Instinctively, even the animals that had wandered to different regions within the Serengeti now begin to advance north.

The animals frequently split again, and the splinter herds wander a bit from the migration paths in search of pasture. However, mothers and their calves mostly keep up with the main herds.

May

Now, the migration is in full gear. As water sources dry up within the Serengeti, the animals’ drive to head north is stronger than ever.

Gradually, most of the herds funnel up into the western and central Serengeti. Columns of up to 40 kilometers can be witnessed as the migration heads to the Grumeti River.

June

The western and central Serengeti regions still boast much of the action in the Great Migration safari.

The weather is much cooler and drier, and the plains are somewhat dusty.

July

The animals get to their first major obstacle in the migration path – the Grumeti River.

This is one of the best times to witness the migration, as hundreds of the crossing herds fall to the mighty Nile crocodiles that reside in the river. More animals panic and in the confusion, are trampled to death.

August

The herds that survived the crocodile onslaught in the Grumeti River proceed to northern Serengeti, where they feast on the lusher grass as they advance further north.

The animals begin to seamlessly cross into the Mara River as the two parks overlap. If you’ve been following the action from the Tanzanian side, remember that you’ll need a passport to cross over to Kenya.

September

Splinter groups begin to emerge again. Some herds cross the Mara River into the Masai Mara and others remain in northern Serengeti.

Like the Grumeti River, the Mara River also claims a few hundreds of lives.

October

The Masai Mara National Reserve is the best place to catch all the action. The Mara plains are flooded with both wildebeest and tourists. Ideally, plan a 4 days or 3 days Masai Mara safari. This will allow you enough time to view the migrating herd and other animals that reside inside the Mara.

November

The herds have almost depleted all the grass in the Mara plains. It begins to rain on the Serengeti side of the ecosystem.

The wildebeest now graze towards the Mara River as they prepare themselves to make the journey back to Tanzania.

December

The wildebeest herds are in north-eastern Serengeti, around the Lobo area. The calving season begins yet again, as does the migration cycle.

Evidently, making the most of your Great Wildebeest Migration requires meticulous planning. Therefore, we cannot overemphasize the significance of working with tour companies that understand the routes followed in this historic journey.

 

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